Weather headlines (x3) for Thursday: Heavy downpours, Front moves in on Friday, More thunderstorms this weekend
16/11/2022 6:00pm
> From the WeatherWatch archives
Here’s what is making the weather headlines today.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS / THUNDERSTORMS
The first order of business today is thunderstorms and downpours this afternoon, these will mostly occur for the North Island but a chance exists for the inner South Island too.
More on today’s thunderstorm chances from Metservice here.
FRONT BRINGS RAIN ON FRIDAY
A front pushes into the western North Island from afternoon on Friday bringing rain, this rain works into the upper South Island during the afternoon also. Rain may be heavy about Taranaki southwards into Nelson and Marlborough. Overnight some rain spreads to the east coast of the North Island.
In the evening rain starts pushing down over Canterbury from the north. Nelson, Marlborough and especially Canterbury are getting a bit dry at the moment so this rain will be welcome.
More on rainfall for your location at ruralweather.co.nz
MSLP / Rain map – Fri 18th Nov 2022 7:00pm – Weatherzone.com.au 
MSLP / Rain map – Sat 19th Nov 2022 4:00am – Weatherzone.com.au
MORE UNSTABLE SHOWERS ON THE WAY THIS WEEKEND
Unstable weather isn’t confined to today, the weekend has a good chance of thunderstorms and downpours about inland parts thanks to cold air aloft and warm / humid surface conditions.
This rain accumulation map below through to Sunday shows how heavy downpours are more about inland areas with coastal areas not receiving at much, this is indicative of the unstable weather we can expect over the next few days.
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Jacques on 17/11/2022 1:32am
@remco if it was that easy it would already have been done! How about you take it easy on the small guys here who are trying to do everything they can with little staff and next to no budget.
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remco on 16/11/2022 10:45pm
When do we finally get a decent lightning detector…..you promise one for more than a decade now. It may save lives…
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WW Forecast Team on 16/11/2022 10:50pm
We’ve already installed one detector in NZ and are hoping to make this data available in 2023 (it’s not up to us). Please note we’re a really small company and your taxes have been used to fund a network through MetService. If it was cheap we’d have done it already. We already have high res lightning data via IBM which we can sell – but we don’t have permission to display for free yet, that’s what we’re working on. MetService is also interested in working with us to display lightning. If you have a spare $150,000 please feel free to donate to us so we can launch it all now. 🙂
Cheers
Philip Duncan.
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remco on 17/11/2022 12:58am
What is the point of having lightning detection and keeping the data hidden from the public? We are out in the fields. water and forest….Our lives are in danger. Make an App..ask for a few dollars…like everywhere in the world
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WW Forecast Team on 17/11/2022 1:13am
Like I said – you already tax fund a network with the Government, they block it – not us. We source data from overseas which we have to pay a minimum of 10K a year just to access ourselves … we aren’t allowed to then share it.
We are launching a new app next year and hope we can finally sell MetService lightning data through that – making it accessible in NZ for the first time ever. This has taken WW over a decade to do and has personally caused immense stress to me having to fight the Government so much to “free up” data NZers have already tax funded – and I’ve had very little backing from the public and politicians in this fight. We think we’re making good progress with MetService these days… so 2023 will tell. If you feel it’s so easy, you’re more than welcome to build a lightning network yourself and we’ll put the network on our app for a fee we can share.
Cheers
Phil
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